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john bentley visits the only school teaching afghan students about their musical heritage. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> brennan: good evening. i'm margaret brennan. there is no cease-fire as yet between israel and hamas militants in gaza, though diplomatic efforts are under way. here's the latest-- israel says it's launched nearly 200 airstrikes against more than 800 targets. gaza officials say today's strikes killed 12 people, including eight militants. all told, 42 palestinians and three israeli civilians have been killed in four days of fighting. allen pizzey is in tel aviv tonight. >> reporter: only hours after it was set up, this antimissile battery in tel aviv interpreted a long-range rocket aimed at the hate of israel's commercial capital. five such batteries, called iron dome, have been keploid and three more are being rushed into production. in an expansion of the air war against hamas, the israelis struck the office of the movement's prime minister overnight. attacks were also aimed at other parts of hamas' political struck the ui
john bentley visits the only school teaching afghan students about their musical heritage. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> brennan: good evening. i'm margaret brennan. there is no cease-fire as yet between israel and hamas militants in gaza, though diplomatic efforts are under way. here's the latest-- israel says it's launched nearly 200 airstrikes against more than 800 targets. gaza officials say today's strikes killed 12 people, including eight...
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. >> glor: house speaker john boehner held a conference call with his members telling them compromise was needed. obama senior advisor david axelrod called boehner's comments to members encouraging. >> i think there are a lot of ways to skin this cat so long as everybody comes with a positive, constructive attitude toward the task. >> glor: if the automatic spending cuts happen, exactly 50% of the board without fall on the pentagon. national security correspondent david martin lays out what that would mean. e> reporter: the dreaded sequestration would double the $500 billion in cuts the pentagon is already planning to make over the next decade. defense secretary panetta has not minced words about what that would mean. >> if a sequestration is allowed to go into effect it will be a disaster for national defense. >> reporter: according to panetta the new american strategy of pivoting away from the wars in iraq and afghanistan toward the pacific and an emerging chinese superpower would come undone. >> all of that can go to hell if this congress doesn't face up and deal with the issue of
. >> glor: house speaker john boehner held a conference call with his members telling them compromise was needed. obama senior advisor david axelrod called boehner's comments to members encouraging. >> i think there are a lot of ways to skin this cat so long as everybody comes with a positive, constructive attitude toward the task. >> glor: if the automatic spending cuts happen, exactly 50% of the board without fall on the pentagon. national security correspondent david martin...
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john mclaughlin knows what that's like. he did it in 2004. >> once you're sitting in the chair, there's no one sitting >> ond you. tere's no safety net. no the acting director for all ractical purposes is the director for that period of time. >> reporter: can morell, an economist by training, head an organization in the middle of a shooting war? he has been in on the war since it started. as president bush's daily it briefer, he delivered that famous briefing in august of 2001 "bin laden determined to strike in u.s. " he was with the president on 9/11, relaying reports from c.i.a. headquarters. e is an analyst, not an operator. but then, neither was panetta who, during his term as c.i.a. director, headed the most successful operation of all: the hunt for osama bin laden. morell was part of that operation, assigned to come up with arguments why the intelligence that bin laden was hiding in a pakistani compound could be wrong. like the president before, this president knows morell. >> the c.i.a. works primarily for the presid
john mclaughlin knows what that's like. he did it in 2004. >> once you're sitting in the chair, there's no one sitting >> ond you. tere's no safety net. no the acting director for all ractical purposes is the director for that period of time. >> reporter: can morell, an economist by training, head an organization in the middle of a shooting war? he has been in on the war since it started. as president bush's daily it briefer, he delivered that famous briefing in august of 2001...
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. >> pelley: in the same question, the president was asked about general john allen, commander of the u.s. forces in afghanistan and his nominee to lead nato. but mr. obama was silent on allen. the same f.b.i. investigation uncovered e-mails between allen and a socialite, jill kelly, who hosted functions for central command in tampa, where both petraeus and allen had worked. based on those e-mails, mr. obama placed allen's nomination to nato on hold. bob orr has our story tonight from washington. >> reporter: the career of general john allen hinges on the content of some 200 e-mails he exchanged with jill kelly. sources say allen was confronted with some of the e-mails by the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff martin dempsey. allen's attorney late today issued a statement saying general allen intends to fully cooperate with the inspector general investigators and directed his staff to do the same. alep has told officials he's done nothing wrong and has written nothing to kelly that would preclude his nomination. officials have characterized the communications with kelly as flirtati
. >> pelley: in the same question, the president was asked about general john allen, commander of the u.s. forces in afghanistan and his nominee to lead nato. but mr. obama was silent on allen. the same f.b.i. investigation uncovered e-mails between allen and a socialite, jill kelly, who hosted functions for central command in tampa, where both petraeus and allen had worked. based on those e-mails, mr. obama placed allen's nomination to nato on hold. bob orr has our story tonight from...
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john miller has more on her story. john? >> well, scott, the picture that emerges of jill kelley has two sides. one portrays a wealthy socialite who devotes a lot of her time to the military. the other is that of a woman who seeks out powerful connections and is not afraid to use them. dr. scott kelley, a prominent tampa surgeon, and his wife jill, a socialite, are on all the right v.i.p. lists at the mcdill air force base. but according to current and former military officials, jill was a force to be reckoned with. kelley participating in events to welcome officers from foreign countries and was even given a certificate naming her honorary ambassador to the coalition forces. a state department spokesman went to pains to say the obvious today-- that she was never an official u.s. ambassador. >> she does not work for the state department and has no formal affiliation with the state department. >> reporter: but in 911 calls made to tampa police this week about trespassing reporters, jill kelley seems to indicate that her prope
john miller has more on her story. john? >> well, scott, the picture that emerges of jill kelley has two sides. one portrays a wealthy socialite who devotes a lot of her time to the military. the other is that of a woman who seeks out powerful connections and is not afraid to use them. dr. scott kelley, a prominent tampa surgeon, and his wife jill, a socialite, are on all the right v.i.p. lists at the mcdill air force base. but according to current and former military officials, jill was...
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john lapook, cbs news, boston. >> and that's our voice for tonight. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. >>> >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald. >>> good evening, i'm dana king. >> i'm allen martin. san francisco mayor ed lee continued his full-court press today to draw the warriors across the bay. >> he is trying to sell the city a half billion-dollar waterfront sports center. cbs 5 political insider phil matier tells us the mayor's latest push is designed to build support from a different type of team. >> we are live at the site of where the warriors hope to build the arena but the play today was at city hall and it was an interesting one because the warriors basically gave the city a deal it couldn't refuse but like a lot of deals in san francisco, there's more to this than meets the eye. here's the story. as political pitches go it was perfect, people at city hall all to get news they are going to get the first crack the jobs building the $500 million arena that the golden state warriors want to put up on the
john lapook, cbs news, boston. >> and that's our voice for tonight. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. >>> >> your realtime captioner: linda marie macdonald. >>> good evening, i'm dana king. >> i'm allen martin. san francisco mayor ed lee continued his full-court press today to draw the warriors across the bay. >> he is trying to sell the city a half billion-dollar waterfront sports center. cbs 5 political insider phil matier...